Firefox in Statler

There's been a number of people looking to install Firefox in Statler. Even though it is essentially the same thing as iceweasel, users are reporting that iceweasel is somewhat slower than Chrome or Firefox.

Thankfully Clem at Linuxmint is now packaging Firefox for Debian. At the time of writing it is at version 3.6.8 which is more up to date than iceweasel which is at 3.5.11. Download it here http://packages.linuxmint.com/list.php?release=Debian. As a minimum you'll need both the Firefox and firefox-l10n-en-us packages. Note that it will install in /opt.

If you'd like to add the Mint repo to your sources list for easy updates, do the following:

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

add this line

deb http://packages.linuxmint.com debian import

This will just give you access to limited packages in the import repo. Namely Firefox and Thunderbird.

Re: Firefox in Statler

fox wrote:

If you add the Mint debian import repo to your sources, won't you get a whole lot of Statler stuff replaced if you do a Synaptic update?

It shouldn't. Statler packages are pinned as the default so that shouldn't happen. If that fails the import repo only contains, Firefox, Thunderbird and a couple of gtk themes. It shouldn't cause any problems. That said these things are always experimental. Use at your own risk

Re: Firefox in Statler

I used the method in http://techpatterns.com/forums/about1435.html, avoiding the need to have possible conflicts in apt sources. In addition, Firefox will check for updates. I'm runiing FF 3.6.8 and hope to move to FF 4 when it stabilizes.

You may choose to remove Iceweasel or leave it in place. I added Firefox to my menu and left Icewasel in place for a period of testing.

Note that the help links in #! menu will continue to invoke Iceweasel until you update x-www-browser to point to Firefox. In addition, if you have Firefox open, the help links will be unable to open Iceweasel. Ideally you should update x-www-browser after you have configured and verified your Firefox install.

Re: Firefox in Statler

By the way guys, there's alway the possibility to download the binary package of firefox minefield (the 4 beta) from the firefix site. I tried it out and it really did not give me any major problem. Also, that's a good way to help out the firefix team stabilising its new briwser!

If you use the mint version, it causes all sorts of wonderful ELF class x64 errors (which you can see running firefox from terminall). It'll also not be able to draw icons on the toolbars or tabs b/c of this problem. So if you are running x64 Crunchy, use the mepis build, it's the shit. It will also work with the x64 flashplayer you already have installed.

Re: Firefox in Statler

on this topic, what's so wrong with installing it in your /opt with the .tar.gz that is provided on the mozilla website?

registered Linux user: #533379registered #! user: #6769Whenever someone calls me a computer 'nerd' or a 'Unix-based-system' all I can think is: You just wait. In a couple of years. I'll be your IT. Then where will you be!